Ayaka's Elevator Pitch

TFS Proxima, the SCIF.

“That’s everything we discussed, Sir,” Ayaka said, ending her report to the fleet admiral.

He took a moment to consider the information; the meeting had gone in a direction he couldn’t possibly have expected. Initially, he’d expected the worst, given the early hostilities between the trees and humans, and had thought there would be some misunderstandings or ideological differences between the species. But though there were indeed misunderstandings and ideological differences, the misunderstandings had been cleared up and the ideological differences resolved through the brilliant policy of “it doesn’t matter”.